On 22:41, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Sunday February 26, maan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > # uname -r; mdadm -V; cat /proc/mdstat
> > 2.6.15.4-gbbde1285
> > mdadm - v2.3.1 - 6 February 2006
> > Personalities : [raid1] [raid5] [raid6]
> > md1 : active raid1 hdd1[12] sdi1[8] sda1[0] hda1[13] sdl1[11] sdk1[10]
> > sdj1[9] sdh1[7] sdg1[6] sdf1[5] sde1[4] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1]
> > 251776 blocks [14/14] [UUUUUUUUUUUUUU]
>
> You have a 14 drive raid1... cool....
>
> > #
> > # mdadm /dev/md1 -a /dev/hdd1
> > mdadm: cannot find valid superblock in this array - HELP
I took another look and added some fprintf's to Manage.c and util.c,
see the patch below. The problem appears to be map_dev() always
returning NULL because devlist is NULL.
With the patch applied, "mdadm /dev/md1 -a /dev/hdd1" gives me
the following output:
mdadm: st->maxdevs = 27
mdadm: major/minor/state: 8/1/6
devlist: (nil)
mdadm: major/minor/state: 8/17/6
devlist: (nil)
mdadm: major/minor/state: 8/33/6
devlist: (nil)
mdadm: major/minor/state: 8/49/6
devlist: (nil)
mdadm: major/minor/state: 8/65/6
devlist: (nil)
mdadm: major/minor/state: 8/81/6
devlist: (nil)
mdadm: major/minor/state: 8/97/6
devlist: (nil)
mdadm: major/minor/state: 8/113/6
devlist: (nil)
mdadm: major/minor/state: 8/129/6
devlist: (nil)
mdadm: major/minor/state: 8/145/6
devlist: (nil)
mdadm: major/minor/state: 8/161/6
devlist: (nil)
mdadm: major/minor/state: 8/177/6
devlist: (nil)
mdadm: major/minor/state: 0/0/8
mdadm: major/minor/state: 3/1/6
devlist: (nil)
mdadm: major/minor/state: 0/0/8
mdadm: major/minor/state: 0/0/8
mdadm: major/minor/state: 0/0/8
mdadm: major/minor/state: 0/0/8
mdadm: major/minor/state: 0/0/8
mdadm: major/minor/state: 0/0/8
mdadm: major/minor/state: 0/0/8
mdadm: major/minor/state: 0/0/8
mdadm: major/minor/state: 0/0/8
mdadm: major/minor/state: 0/0/8
mdadm: major/minor/state: 0/0/8
mdadm: major/minor/state: 0/0/8
mdadm: major/minor/state: 0/0/8
mdadm: cannot find valid superblock in this array - HELP
---
diff -urpN mdadm-2.3.1/Manage.c mdadm-2.3.1-hacked/Manage.c
--- mdadm-2.3.1/Manage.c Mon Dec 5 05:52:22 2005
+++ mdadm-2.3.1-hacked/Manage.c Sun Feb 26 14:13:07 2006
@@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ int Manage_subdevs(char *devname, int fd
if (array.not_persistent == 0) {
+ fprintf(stderr, Name ": st->maxdevs = %d\n", st->max_devs);
/* need to find a sample superblock to copy, and
* a spare slot to use
*/
@@ -245,6 +246,7 @@ int Manage_subdevs(char *devname, int fd
disc.number = j;
if (ioctl(fd, GET_DISK_INFO, &disc))
continue;
+ fprintf(stderr, Name ": major/minor/state: %d/%d/%d\n", disc.major, disc.minor, disc.state);
if (disc.major==0 && disc.minor==0)
continue;
if ((disc.state & 4)==0) continue; /* sync */
diff -urpN mdadm-2.3.1/util.c mdadm-2.3.1-hacked/util.c
--- mdadm-2.3.1/util.c Tue Jan 31 00:43:03 2006
+++ mdadm-2.3.1-hacked/util.c Sun Feb 26 14:06:51 2006
@@ -412,6 +412,7 @@ char *map_dev(int major, int minor)
devlist_ready=1;
}
+ fprintf(stderr, "devlist: %p\n", devlist);
for (p=devlist; p; p=p->next)
if (p->major == major &&
p->minor == minor) {
--
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